Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city was "the brightest jewel" in the crown of England's Charles II. It was coveted by the Portuguese, ruled by the Moors, shelled by the French, invaded by the Spanish-and fought over by just about everyone. When it was finally internationalized in 1923, it was the Mediterranean haven for money-changers and smugglers, bohemians and titled idlers...
...both shores of the Mediterranean, the menace of violence lay like a dark shadow over what might well prove the last, best hope for a peaceful settlement of the Algerian fighting. Once again, only the vast prestige of Charles de Gaulle could carry France through to a happy conclusion...
With all the elaborate ceremony that characterizes such occasions under the Fifth Republic, President Charles de Gaulle this week inaugurates the first pipeline to send French oil flowing from the Sahara to an Algerian port on the Mediterranean. If the Algerian rebels do not almost immediately destroy enough of the pipeline to make it inoperative, it will be an exercise of remarkable restraint on their part. For after five years of fighting, the French Army is in no position to protect a pipeline, nor even to undertake less imposing tasks of policing...
...station. Obviously affected by delusions of tragedy, Mr. Miller has outfitted his work with a one-man chorus named Alfieri, who takes a small part in the action (he is a waterfront lawyer), but spends most of his time making superfluous references to the passionate nature of the Mediterranean peoples and the inevitable doom of Eddie Carbone. This device imparts to the play an air of pretentiousness, which Joseph Plummer does not dissipate by playing Alfieri like the dear old professor of a very recondite subject...
...PASSENGER LINERS will be built by the Italian Line for New York-Mediterranean service. Two 35,000-ton luxury ships will each have accommodations for 1,600 passengers, cruise at 26.5 knots to Italy in seven days, one day faster than the line's 33,500-ton Leonardo da Vinci, which will be put into service next summer on the transatlantic...